"Bäume wachsen nicht in den Himmel" - literally, trees do not grow as high as the sky -is a German idiom, meaning that there is indeed a limit to everything.I turned that phrase around,by insisting that the tree at the topof the maypole does not know a limit.

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Incredibly beautiful! You know, I've never had fried arugula! Since I like arugula any way, shape and form, I must try it. Once, at Maxim's in Paris, they served fried parsley beside my salmon and it was wonderful!!

Giulia,you are right, that was slipshod research, I should have dug deeper in time! Thank you! :-)

RNSANE,Viennese like to fry parsley too,and I love to eat it, but have never tried it myself.

O/T:Do any of you know if the French call the return key of a computer keyboard still "retour chariot"? (That word always evokes memories of hitting the return carriage of antique Underwood typewriters.)

There would be lots of stories to tell about the Maypole celebrations and customs in Austria: In the village were I grew up, the night before the Maypole is guarded carefully, there are always some groups who plan on stealing it for ransom. In some regions, Walpurgis Night (the night before May 1st), everything that was not in its right place was subject to be moved to some public location by some naughty lads: Imagine the embarrassment of discovering your plough (plow) planted on the church's roof when you went to mass early in the morning, there for everybody to see. Would you ever leave it out in the field again after that? (That story is true, my mother witnessed the event, also about an outhouse carried to the village square.)

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